Polymer hydrogels have been our focus of research because of their range of importantproperties, such as biocompatibility, and responsive behavior. The responsive behavior ofspecial hydrogels is of special concern in this study. The hydrogel is synthesized from stimuliresponsivepolymers, sensitive to the surrounding aqueous solution (for example, temperature,and pH). This change in swelling degree refers to changes of many properties of the materialslike; refractive index, permeability, elastic modulus, interfacial tension, adhesion, etc. Thephysical properties of stimuli responsive hydrogels have been explored for the tunable andswitchable transport of ions and molecules across the material, controlled uptake and releaseof chemicals by bulk hydrogels, and various kinds of sensors and actuators. The advantages ofhydrogel thin films have been explored for the fabrication of miniaturized devices with fastresponse times. Hydrogel thin films have also attracted interest as an approach to responsivesurfaces and interfaces, where they compete with grafted polymer layers. A 3D polymernetwork is much more stable at interfaces when compared with polymer brushes, wherepolymer chains are grafted to the surface via only one functional group while the polymernetwork is linked to the surface by multiple anchoring points. Our studies were focused on the following; First of all we focused on the synthesis of new functional monomers; therefore, weused vanillin as start compound in the synthesis of three monomers: 4-formyl-2-methoxyphenylacrylate (VA), 2-[(diethylamino)methyl]-4-formyl-6-methoxyphenylacrylate (DEMAVA), and [ |